McKeller Flash Fiction
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, MGM owns Stargate Atlantis, I have no affiliation with them and therefore am simply borrowing their characters. I promise I'll put them all back when I'm good and ready!
Summary: This is in response to the Flash Fiction challenge proposed by KoineKid and DaniWilder. It will be a series of small (less than 300 word) flashes into their lives.
Flash: Alone
Rodney was working late as usual. He had nothing to do, nowhere to go, and no one to hold him. Colonel Sheppard was busy with Elizabeth. They had gone out for dinner and a movie. John had gotten him to set up the large screen and then promptly told him that he wasn't invited. Teyla and Ronon were on the mainland, visiting her people. They had invited him but ever since they had become an item, he felt like a third wheel. No one thought he was that perceptive; he just didn't let them see it. Too many times he had had his heart broken and been left alone. There was just one crucial difference this time. He could feel it and it hurt him to believe that he was all alone. So as he sat there, tinkering with the live code on the Atlantis mainframe, a small lone tear trickled out of his eye, and rolled, ever so slowly down his face and landed with a soft plop onto his laptop. He wiped it away, lest it fizzle down into the innards and continued plodding on content inknowing that he'd find a way to survive alone. There was just the lingering sense of sadness that he would never have anyone there willing to be there for him.
I know this didn't strictly adhere to the guidelines as there was no McKeller element at all but this is preship McKeller; within the next few flashes, it will appear. Thanks for reading and reviewing!